<p>what do you mean committing to play a sport doesn't mean your accepted, haha. coaches don't recruit players and then tell them they didn't get in. Sorry to say it, but the world isn't fair. I actually have really good grades and ec's but even if i didn't i can guarentee you any athlete being recruited will get in virtually no matter what. Coaches have a little pull in the admissions office, just like a kid whose dad buys the school a new auditorium or trust fund. </p>
<p>My coach didn't say which program do you wanna apply and hopefully get into, it was which program do you want to be in and im pretty sure everyone else on this chat who is playing a sport can verify that and give a little insight. </p>
<p>other than that let all your "friends" on the team know and tell them to give gonger a call about it.</p>
<p>I know tons of examples of athletes who were good enough to go to any Div I school they wanted but weren't accepted at Ivies because of sub-par grades etc. There are still other variables involved. Yes, your athelete status will help you, but its never a sure thing.</p>
<p>Exactly, how does your coach asking you want program you want to be in imply that you have a 100% chance at acceptance...in what world is that true?</p>
<p>The acceptance is guaranteed. The convo went like this "Choose which program you want to be in before the admissions starts accepting applications" and thats beside the point. The acceptance to a program isn't even what this thread is about, its which programs fits what i want to do the best, not can i get in to this program, thats not an issue or the question. </p>
<p>Also who do you know that had their choice of D1 schools who got turned down by ives, i played with two kids who are both at harvard right now playing puck and neither of them had even a 3.0 in high school. One actually failed 2 classes during the hockey season. So keep telling yourself that schools look at grades over everything, cause in some situations the transcripts aren't even considered....</p>
<p>swimmer at Columbia, football player at Princeton, wrestler at Harvard....i can give more examples, but not going to.</p>
<p>how about water polo at brown and lacrosse player at yale</p>
<p>i can make up random sports and schools too</p>
<p>I'm even better at it then you </p>
<p>lets try a world class table-tennis player from Penn and a competive fooseball star from Dartmouth</p>
<p>First of all, gongshow -- congratulations on committing to play hockey for Cornell; as a hockey player myself, being good enough to play D1 is quite a feat. </p>
<p>I'm trying to be impartial, but I must say that I don't believe your acceptance is necessarily guaranteed. To the best of my knowledge, the Ivy League has a collective policy for recruited athletes. Once you apply, you get a letter sometime in the middle of the process that states that you are "likely" (aka you're in)... or something to the effect of "possible" (aka it's a toss-up, depends on the adcom)...or something to the effect of "not likely" (aka look elsewhere with lower academic standards). At Cornell, some adcom members, professors in particular, are notorious for denying recruited athletes -- much to the disdain of the coaching staff. But if they believe you can't do the work, you won't get in. So I don't think the coach has the 'authority,' for lack of a better word, to tell you that you're definitely in.</p>
<p>arent his stats decent? i know of minorities that got in with like an 1100/1600 SAT score...</p>
<p>surely him being a recruited athlete (hockey at that) is akin to the points one receives for being a minority?</p>
<p>So who could gongshow be?</p>
<p>Big</a> Red Puckhead</p>
<h1>F - Erik Axell</h1>
<h1>F - Kevin Cole (expected to defer to 2010)</h1>
<h1>F - Vince Mihalek</h1>
<h1>F - Chris Moulson</h1>
<h1>D - Braden Birch</h1>
<h1>D - Nick D'Agostino</h1>
<h1>D - Jarred Seymour (could defer to 2010)</h1>
<p>My vote is for Mihalek, from Ohio, and playing for Cedar Rapids. I just don't see any of the Canadians spending their time on this site, especially Moulson or Birch.</p>
<p>Even if my guess is incorrect, I'll chime in that your acceptance is not guaranteed, but it is pretty certain, especially if you have an AI above 171. I would also say you are lucky that Casey Jones has decided to return back to Cornell. He is supposed to be excellent.</p>
<p>As for what school you should be in, the answer should be pretty easy... AEM for business or ILR for 'people skills' -- organizational psychology, negotiation, etc. That said, AEM is getting increasingly difficult to get into and there are only 25 slotted spots for athletes every year, so I wouldn't be surprised if you were encouraged to find a different program. A bunch of athletes end up as 'General Studies' in CALS, taking a mix of communication and AEM.</p>